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The exciting conclusion of my Cabbage Soup Diet adventure!

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

So I’m pretty sure some of you are at least a little curious to know how this whole diet thing turned out for me.  I had my meeting with Carol the Nutritionist this afternoon and at my weigh-in I had lost . . . 7 pounds!  And that was without any exercising because I just couldn’t muster up the energy to do any of that this last week.  Carol’s words at that were: “Think of how much more you would have lost if you had exercised!”  And yet, I have no regrets about taking it easy because I genuinely didn’t have it in me.

For the record, if anyone cares to know how much trouble I’m in with the weight issue, that puts me at 225 pounds.  But it’s a start and that’s what I was really looking for, more than a massive weight loss.  It would have been super cool to lose a lot of weight, and I’m tickled by a >5 pound loss in a week, but I still have a long way to go.  My goal healthy weight is around 140 pounds.

To that end, Carol and I talked about what my diet goals need to be.  And, in short, it’s restrictive.  The foods I can eat are fruits, non-starchy vegetables, and lean protein.  No dairy.  No carbs.  No sugar.  No bread.  No rice.  No potatoes.  No cheese.  Until I can get my weight down where it needs to be, I need to stay clear away from those things.  Once I’m down where I need to be and have learned how to eat healthy foods and in correct portions, then I can look at adding carbs back into my diet, but until then . . . nada.

It’s going to be really, really hard.  And I know I’m going to have cheat days, but they have to be few and far between.  Of course, I’m starting out with a cheat day tomorrow—I’m going to have bread because I just can’t stop dreaming about it.  But I have to learn how to get appropriate carbs from fruits and veggies, instead of flour.

And that, honestly, is frustrating.  I don’t especially want to do it.  But nothing else I’ve done has worked.  And I’m really sick and tired of weighing so much more than my husband.  And my clothes not fitting right.  And being embarrassed to wear a swim suit.  And wondering if I’m the fattest girl in the room.  And not being able to run.  And hating photographs taken of me.

And that . . . is all I have to say about that.

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Last day!!

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

So it turns out that I didn’t even touch my computer at all last night.  After getting off work, I went next door to the airport to pick up Justin’s grandma.  Then we drove to Savannah to visit with Justin’s sister for a little bit and pick up her car.  And then we drove to Bluffton to get Justin and go out to dinner.  We went to Jim ‘n’ Nicks, one of our favorite restaurants, an excellent barbeque place, so I could get a steak and a house salad and watch them eat mac and cheese and cheese biscuits that are *so* yummy.  My steak was excellent, though, so I didn’t mind terribly much.  I don’t eat steak very often, but I do really enjoy it when I do.  Anyway, after dinner, we went back home and sat on the couch chatting until around 11:30, when they both realized I was falling asleep and sent me off to bed.

Today makes it the last day of my week on the Cabbage Soup-less Diet.  I’m back to fruits and veggies today, no bananas, no starchies, and no tomatoes.  I’m happy to have fruit today.  I’ve got a bowl of grapefruit here that I’m eating for breakfast and I’m struggling because it’s just SO tart!  For lunch, I have a spinach salad with a homemade raspberry dressing that Justin made a couple days ago and I’m really excited to give it a try.

This whole diet thing has been an interesting experience, but I’ll be honest:  I’m not enthusiastic about doing it for a second week, no matter how encouraging Carol-the-nutritionist is on that plan.  She called yesterday morning to check on me and reminded me that if I was interested, I could do this a second week, with even more results.  And it’s possible that I’ve dropped several pounds doing this.  And it’s definitely sure that I’ve been able to rethink the foods I’ve been eating and the foods that I haven’t been eating and I’m ready to start on a new food plan for a healthier and skinnier me.

But let me tell you, I am ready for some starch.  I thought I’d crave the sugar more than anything, but when I think about eating some of the things I haven’t been eating, I can imagine eating just a serving of ice cream, or just a couple M&Ms.  I am able to imagine that I can stick to a serving size of a sugar-heavy item and keep my servings per day and per week to a reasonable amount.  I can manage without the caffeine.  I didn’t really drink it much anyway, and the longer I’m without it, the easier it is to get up in the morning.

But I’ve been dreaming about eating bread.  I’ve honestly been waking up in the morning having dreamed of going to a sandwich shop.  And when I imagine eating bread, I don’t imagine reasonable serving sizes.  I imagine thick slices of fresh, warm bread, and more than just one slice.  I am seriously jonesing for some bread.

I am perfectly willing to start eating low sugar content and giving up the caffeine, but I cannot give up the bread yet.  Heck, if I had to go completely sugar free, I’d probably be willing to do that, if I can only eat some bread!  And I will avoid white flour and go all whole grains and everything, just let me eat a slice of warm, fresh bread.

So I’ll be talking with the nutritionist about that this afternoon.  And hopefully on a great new plan starting tomorrow.  But for the rest of today, I’m eating fruits and veggies.

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